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At the latest Saturday Night's Main Event show on July 12, Seth Rollins had a one on one match with the former two times WWE United States Champion, LA Knight, where Rollins was beaten by Knight. But it looked like Rollins got injured during this match, and later it was reported that he would be out of action for at least 8 to 10 months.
It was heartbreaking news for his fans because Seth Rollins was having a proper main event run after a long time, and this could have been a huge blow to his career. The fans were also confused about where the world championship picture would go since Rollins is now out of action for a long time, and he would even miss WrestleMania 42.
WWE Hall of Famer talks about Seth Rollins' false injury
At Summerslam, Gunther defended the World Heavyweight Championship against CM Punk on the main event of Night 1. After Punk defeated Gunther to win the World Heavyweight Championship, yeared and shocked the world by revealing the injury was a ruse. He then cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and took the World Heavyweight title away from Punk.
Seth Rollins picked up the injury at Saturday Night's Main Event, but it was false
Later, it had been revealed that the injury was completely work and WWE purposefully spread the false news of this injury. WWE employees like Paul Heyman openly talked about this injury to make it more believable; later, he himself revealed that it was a ruse. WWE Hall of Famer Bubba Ray Dudley recently discussed this false injury while speaking on the “Busted Open Radio” podcast. He said;
Seth Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank contract at SummerSlam to win the World Heavyweight Championship
“I think somebody gave Mike bad information on purpose. Right now, I believe that the business, in order to protect itself, is gonna have to enter a very espionage-esque way of doing things.” said the Tag Team Legend regarding the report of Mike Johnson regarding the injury of Seth Rollins.
He continued, “The WWE has been working the dirt sheets for a long time, now. I think they are starting to deliberately leak false information … And if I have my Mike Johnson story wrong, my apologies to Mike Johnson, but I think that’s the way it went down…” said the WWE Hall of Famer.
